#1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status

[John Stanley <stanley@xxxxxxxx>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>- Permit : in "diagnostics", not in "identities", and add some appropriate 
>note with warnings on what will happen to DEAD:BEEF:CAFE

>Does this make sense?

No. ':' is even less needed if the entry is only a "diagnostic", whatever
that is supposed to be. 

Proposal already on table to deal with IPv6 literals in path identities
and the use of colons. There is even less reason not to use it since you
want to limit their existance to "diagnostics".

And it matches the last text you produced for ABNF for path identities.

"We know this bad thing can happen if you do this. Instead of providing a
safe way to do it, we'll let you do the bad thing anyway." Good standard.